I see it more as warriness than hatred. Whether or not they act "good" now, they have a near monopoly. It has a lot of potential to go bad for us consumers, even if the probability might be low. Murphy's law apply: if it can go wrong it will, someday.

Is that an autistic trait? (honest question). I get irrationally frustrated when someone tries to have a conversation before I had some downtime / too soon after I wake up. I've never understood why I get so upset about it

Maybe you're aware and it doesn't fit your need, but in case not: there's a snipping to ocr tool provided with PowerToys. Win+shift+T and select a zone, il ocr it and puts it in your clipboard. Good stuff. There's also NormCap that does the same : https://dynobo.github.io/normcap/

Optional is my favorite example to give, at this point most people have internalized how to use its map function and how it works

Not sure if they are a large part of framework's consumers, or just very vocal in that thread.

Don't cherrypick a single issue raised by the OP to pretend the whole discussion is about that, please